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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.Elizabeth Bowen

When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.Madeleine M. Kunin

I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer’s death as winter tightens its grip.Henry Rollins

The spring, summer, is quite a hectic time for people in their lives, but then it comes to autumn, and to winter, and you can’t but help think back to the year that was, and then hopefully looking forward to the year that is approaching.Enya

People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.Rogers Hornsby

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.Henry Rollins

There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.Bill Veeck

But I do feel a little teeny right now that I’m just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.Gordon Parks

And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.Elizabeth Gilbert

“Marriage: Love is the reason. Lifelong friendship is the gift. Kindness is the cause. Til’ death do us part is the length.”-Fawn Weaver

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”-Mignon McLaughlin

“Marriages are like fingerprints; each one is different and each one is beautiful.”-Maggie Reyes

“Being in a long marriage is a little bit like that nice cup of coffee every morning – I might have it every day, but I still enjoy it.”-Stephen Gaines

“Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It’s a choice.”-Fawn Weaver

“The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn’t marry me.”-Robert Brault

“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”-Robert Quillen

“The best time to love with your whole heart is always now, in this moment, because no breath beyond the current is promised.”-Fawn Weaver

“To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.”-Robert Brault

“The difference between an ordinary marriage and an extraordinary marriage is in giving just a little ‘extra’ every day, as often as possible, for as long as we both shall live.”-Fawn Weaver

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”-Sam Keen

“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”-Franklin P. Jones

“Where there is love, there is life.”-Mahatma Gandhi

“Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.”-Jennifer Smith

“The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.”-Fawn Weaver

“People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.”-Paul Newman

“Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.”-Harville Hendrix

“Once we figured out that we could not change each other, we became free to celebrate ourselves as we are.”-H. Dean Rutherford (in a letter to his wife on their 59th wedding anniversary)

“Love is the greatest gift when given. It is the highest honor when received.”-Fawn Weaver

“A long-lasting marriage is built by two people who believe in -and live by- the solemn promise they made.”-Darlene Schacht

“If you’re not happy with where you are and what you’ve got, you won’t be happy with where you go or what you get. Happiness is a choice for today.”-Fawn Weaver

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”-Henry Ford

“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”-Dave Meurer

“A great marriage isn’t something that just happens; it’s something that must be created.”-Fawn Weaver

“Marriage is a commitment- a decision to do, all through life, that which will express your love for one’s spouse.”-Herman H. Kieval

“Show me a man who is smiling from ear-to-ear and living a beautiful life, and I’ll show you a man who is grateful for what he has and utterly in love with his wife.”-Fawn Weaver

“A fool in love makes no sense to me. I only think you are a fool if you do not love.”-Unknown

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing.”-Mignon McLaughlin

“Love is a partnership of two unique people who bring out the very best in each other, and who know that even though they are wonderful as individuals, they are even better together.”-Barbara Cage

“The doors of happiness remain locked. When they are unlocked, they swing open quickly and widely but close right behind them. They must be reopened throughout each day and there is but one key that fits that lock: Gratitude.”-Fawn Weaver

“The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.”-Unknown

“Marriage is like watching the color of leaves in the fall; ever changing and more stunningly beautiful with each passing day.”-Fawn Weaver

“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”-John Lennon and Paul McCartney

“You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you, and then you meet one person and your life is changed forever.”– Jamie Randall (from the movie, Love and Other Drugs)

“There are few things more frightening to a man than giving away his heart. And there are few things more comforting to a man than to know the woman he gave his heart to, will protect it with her life.”-Fawn Weaver

“Love is always bestowed as a gift -freely, willingly, and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved, we love to love.”-Leo Buscagalia

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”-Peter Ustinov

“Enjoy the little things in life… For one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.”-Kurt Vonnegut

“Keep the fire lit in your marriage and your life will be filled with warmth.”-Fawn Weaver

“You don’t marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as a result of being married to you.”-Richard Needham

“When you compromise your beliefs for the sake of gain, that is a lack of integrity. When you compromise your beliefs for the sake of greater understanding with your spouse, that’s called wisdom.”-Fawn Weaver

“One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search.”-Robert Brault

“Heart pounding, body sweating, hair soaked… Going for a morning run does that but leaves me a little tired. Staying in the bed with my husband a little longer yields the same result – but is a whole lot more fun.”-Fawn Weaver

“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”-Oliver Wendell Holmes

1. No matter what has happened. No matter what you’ve done. No matter what you will do. I will always love you. I swear it.C.J. Redwine

2. I wanted to tell you that wherever I am, whatever happens, I’ll always think of you, and the time we spent together, as my happiest time. I’d do it all over again, if I had the choice. No regrets.Cynthia Hand

3. And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars. Beth Revis

4. It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.David Levithan

5. I love you the way a drowning man loves air. And it would destroy me to have you just a little. Rae Carson

6. I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.John Green

7. I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I’ll never love you any less than I do, right this second.Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

8. Sometimes I can’t see myself when I’m with you. I can only just see you.Jodi Lynn Anderson

9. I am catastrophically in love with you. Cassandra Clare

10. I knew the second I met you that there was something about you I needed. Turns out it wasn’t something about you at all. It was just you. Jamie McGuire

13. If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. If my love were a desert, you would see only sand. If my love were a star-late at night, only light. And if my love could grow wings, I’d be soaring in flight. Jay Asher

14. There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.Sarah Dessen

15. I don’t care how hard being together is, nothing is worse than being apart.Josephine Angelini

16. I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body.
I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world. Tahereh Mafi

1. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

2. It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

3. Don’t get stuck worrying about what you’ve missed out on, instead, open up your eyes for the new opportunities right in front of you. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

4. The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Confucius

5. I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Maya Angelou

6. If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Martin Luther King Jr.

7. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby

8. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

David Brinkley

9. I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

George S. Patton

10. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

1. A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

2. Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Autobiography with letters by William Lyon Phelps (1939)

3. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

4. The lack of money is the root of all evil.

More Maxims of Mark by Merle Johnson (1927)

5. Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894)

6. The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey.

Autobiographical Dictation (1906)

7. Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

The Lowest Animal (1896)

8. If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894)

9. In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Following the Equator (1897)

10. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his INTELLECTUAL superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can DO wrong proves his MORAL inferiority to any creature that CANNOT.What Is Man?

11. Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection – that is the last and final and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

Mark Twain’s Essays, Letters, and Speeches

12. One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare.

The Innocents Abroad (1869)

13. Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894)

14. Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.

Following the Equator (1897)

15. “Classic.” A book which people praise and don’t read.

Following the Equator (1897)

16. A successful book is not made of what is in it, but of what is left out of it.

Mark Twain’s Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers (1893-1909)

17. To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte (1896)

18. There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.

Following the Equator (1897)

19. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Following the Equator (1897)

20. One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894)

21. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain’s Notebook (1935, posthumous)

22. Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

Mark Twain’s Notebook (1935, posthumous)

23. The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

Mark Twain’s Notebook (1935, posthumous)

24. Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

More Maxims of Mark by Merle Johnson (1927)

25. Modesty died when clothes were born.

Paine’s Biography of Mark Twain

26. Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Mark Twain’s Notebook (1935, posthumous)

27. Only one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Mark Twain’s Notebook (1902-1903)

28. There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Following the Equator (1897)

29. We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

1. The people must remain ever vigilant against tyrants masquerading as public servants

2. When any nation mistrusts it’s citizens with guns, it’s sending a clear message. It no longer trusts it’s citizens because such a government has evil plans

3. The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth

4. Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth

5. Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics

6. However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

7. It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country’s welfare.

8. I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.

9. Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

10. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

11. If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.